PS: I run Mac OS X on a 300/MHz G3, 512Meg RAM, 3 internal hard drives, an internal jazz drive, internal CD-ROM, internal CD-RW, external SCSI scanner, external SCSI Zip, two keyboards plugged in simultaneously, one two-button scrolling mouse, and a beautiful Philips 1280x1024 LCD monitor hooked up digitally to an ATI Radeon card.
Style of substance, big time.
Oh, FYI, Apple make computer besides iMacs, but they're girlie machines, too, since they aren't ass ugly.
I hope the WINE people don't do a port. If Mac users wanted to run Windows apps they wouldn't own and use Macs, right?
I can see running the odd app in an emulated environment occassionally (but if you have to run it often, you're using the wrong OS in the first place!)
One of my longtime hobbies is photography. The camera market, like the laptop market, also has a sub-industry of carrying case makers. And, like laptop users, photographers are constantly hounded by thieves.
One innovative (and cheap) solution that popped up years ago: Use a diaper bag to transport your equipment.
Diaper bag advantages:
Cheap
Padded
Have many side pockets
Are the last thing someone would want to steal.
Note that the diaper bag solution is NOT appropriate for anyone who's top priority is not having their laptop stolen.
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Oh, great... now I'll have to cancel the LAN party I had planned for two weeks from now AND apologize for all the fun we've been having at the dozens fo LAN parties I've hosted since around '95.
They were all Mac-only shindigs.
I've got to mention the most amazing thing I saw in all that time, though. It was something so brief that I might have missed it since I was busy setting up systems and greeting people...
This guy shows up to the gaming session with a green iMac. He walks in carrying every damn thing he needs, plugs in, and is booting in about ten seconds. Within a minute of arriving, he's gaming!
My other buddies still drag around CPU boxes, cables, monitors, towels to wipe sweat from their foreheads, etc., etc., etc.
I learned that day that the iMac is one MF'n great game machine.
--Richard
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Probably CompUSA. The had a jillion copies in the clearence bin for the longest time. I even bought my PC-loving friend a copy.
--Richard
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You don't have control over how people hear you on the telephone but you still use it right? And have something useful to say, right?
Movies get made regardless of where they play, right?
No problem.
Q: Why is email any different?
A: It ain't.
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Because some people like to have control over the content of their email messages.
I had an Underwood 5 office typewriter back when I was in middle school (1973-'75) which was already probably fourty years old then. I can see no reason why my email messages in 2001 need to look like they were typed on that thing.
I've noticed folks taking about benchmarks and purchase costs and so forth, asking "are these things are expensive?" or "how fast is it?"
Trying to justify these systems (or any other system) without considering ALL costs, including operational costs, is pointless.
For instance, if I were an ISP, I'd definitely want to consider how much electricity my servers consume. That includes calculating what it would cost to cool a server room full of them. After all, I run a business and have to pay for air conditioning, too.
My point: If the power saving is large enough, speed may not be the most important consideration. It fact, an ISP might get better performance AND operate more profitably by installing 1,200 of these rather than buying 1,000 "less expensive" x86-based units.
It is possible to go broke saving money.
--Richard
I used to work for a big company in Austin and there was always an "unspoken deal".
I'd work late without pay or get up in the middle of the night to dial in to check our computer systems when there were problems, and in exchange they wouldn't dick me around about long lunches or coming in a bit late.
My supervisor appreciated what I was doing because overtime pay was forbidden but the need was real, and I was glad not to be punching a time-clock.
The nice part for my bosses was "plausible deniability".
I sometimes thought about challenging the "unspoken deal" but never did.
Doesn't utilizing 8,000 computers to accomplish something suggest to anyone (besides me) that they're doing something wrong?
Okay, I know indexing in a hardware intensive task, as well as responding to user requests, however...
If I bragged that I had installed 8,000 D-cell flashlight batteries to meet the electrical needs of my house, wouldn't someone suggest that I need to reconsider using flashlight batteries?
Has Google bragged about how much electricity they are consuming to run 8,000 electrical heaters? Have they boasted about how much pollution their power consumption generates?
I think we should consider this a bit more critically.
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This is exactly why I like scripting languages:
Few or no declarations.
Weak or absent typing.
Indecipherable if I'm lazy.
Quick and dirty.
--Richard
I attend SWT in central Texas.
Our CD department has recently passed a requirement onto the C/C++ programming instructores: Teach in Linux.
The reason? Students were appearing, in growing unumbers, that didn't know what an object file was and weren't even aware of the linking process.
No GUI's, please.
--Richard
Your insecurity is showing.
--Richard
PS: I run Mac OS X on a 300/MHz G3,
512Meg RAM, 3 internal hard drives, an internal jazz drive, internal CD-ROM, internal CD-RW, external SCSI scanner, external SCSI Zip, two keyboards plugged in simultaneously, one two-button scrolling mouse, and a beautiful Philips 1280x1024 LCD monitor hooked up digitally to an ATI Radeon card.
Style of substance, big time.
Oh, FYI, Apple make computer besides iMacs, but they're girlie machines, too, since they aren't ass ugly.
My other main computer runs Red Hat.
I just do not understand this reasoning.
I hope the WINE people don't do a port. If Mac users wanted to run Windows apps they wouldn't own and use Macs, right?
I can see running the odd app in an emulated environment occassionally (but if you have to run it often, you're using the wrong OS in the first place!)
If you have a burning need...
http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc5m.html
--Richard
"Apple Remote Desktop is like
VNC or Timbuktu, not XFree86."
Besides,... XFree86 sucks.
--Richard
One of my longtime hobbies is photography. The camera market, like the laptop market, also has a sub-industry of carrying case makers. And, like laptop users, photographers are constantly hounded by thieves.
One innovative (and cheap) solution that popped up years ago: Use a diaper bag to transport your equipment.
Diaper bag advantages:
Cheap
Padded
Have many side pockets
Are the last thing someone would want to steal.
Note that the diaper bag solution is NOT appropriate for anyone who's top priority is not having their laptop stolen.
Too bad we're such an image conscious culture.
--Richard
Oh, great.
As a Texan and a Mac user, I get to be stereotyped twice.
--Richard
Mentat Streams is crap? Really?
Why?
--Richard
They were all Mac-only shindigs.
I've got to mention the most amazing thing I saw in all that time, though. It was something so brief that I might have missed it since I was busy setting up systems and greeting people...
This guy shows up to the gaming session with a green iMac. He walks in carrying every damn thing he needs, plugs in, and is booting in about ten seconds. Within a minute of arriving, he's gaming!
My other buddies still drag around CPU boxes, cables, monitors, towels to wipe sweat from their foreheads, etc., etc., etc.
I learned that day that the iMac is one MF'n great game machine.
--Richard
--Richard
Movies get made regardless of where they play, right?
No problem.
Q: Why is email any different?
A: It ain't.
Because some people like to have control over the content of their email messages.
I had an Underwood 5 office typewriter back when I was in middle school (1973-'75) which was already probably fourty years old then. I can see no reason why my email messages in 2001 need to look like they were typed on that thing.
--Richard
I've noticed folks taking about benchmarks and purchase costs and so forth, asking "are these things are expensive?" or "how fast is it?" Trying to justify these systems (or any other system) without considering ALL costs, including operational costs, is pointless. For instance, if I were an ISP, I'd definitely want to consider how much electricity my servers consume. That includes calculating what it would cost to cool a server room full of them. After all, I run a business and have to pay for air conditioning, too. My point: If the power saving is large enough, speed may not be the most important consideration. It fact, an ISP might get better performance AND operate more profitably by installing 1,200 of these rather than buying 1,000 "less expensive" x86-based units. It is possible to go broke saving money. --Richard
I used to work for a big company in Austin and there was always an "unspoken deal". I'd work late without pay or get up in the middle of the night to dial in to check our computer systems when there were problems, and in exchange they wouldn't dick me around about long lunches or coming in a bit late. My supervisor appreciated what I was doing because overtime pay was forbidden but the need was real, and I was glad not to be punching a time-clock. The nice part for my bosses was "plausible deniability". I sometimes thought about challenging the "unspoken deal" but never did.
Doesn't utilizing 8,000 computers to accomplish something suggest to anyone (besides me) that they're doing something wrong?
Okay, I know indexing in a hardware intensive task, as well as responding to user requests, however...
If I bragged that I had installed 8,000 D-cell flashlight batteries to meet the electrical needs of my house, wouldn't someone suggest that I need to reconsider using flashlight batteries?
Has Google bragged about how much electricity they are consuming to run 8,000 electrical heaters? Have they boasted about how much pollution their power consumption generates?
I think we should consider this a bit more critically.
--Richard